The Period of Kazan City or the Mature Stage of Gabdulla Tukay’s Artis-tic Publicistic Creativity (1907-1913)

Abstract

The most productive six years of Gabdulla Tukay’s (1886–1913) short life of twenty-seven years and his creative activity, which lasted only eight years, were associated with the Kazan city. He published his literary-publicistic works, which were an integral part of his literary and artistic creativity along with his lyrical poems in the newspaper “Al-Islah” (“Reform”), which was firstly published at the initiative of the writer Fatih Amirkhan in the Tatar language in Kazan and was one of the most progressive printed organs.

After this newspaper ceased to operate, the satirical, humorous, and illustrated magazines called “Yashen” (“Lightning”) and “Yalt-yolt” (“The Lightning”) publishing in the Tatar language in Kazan were again published. He published his poems, translations, articles and artistic journalistic works, mainly essays, satirical feuilletons, pamphlets, parodies, epigrams and other works in these magazines, which was published on Tukay’s own initiative and under his secretaryship.

In addition, Gabdulla Tukay also published his literary publicistic works in other magazines published outside Kazan, including the newspaper “Fikir” (“The Thought”), with which he collaborated while living in the city of Uralsk.

The author’s autobiographical essay entitled as “What I Remember” was published as a separate booklet during his lifetime - in 1909 - by the “Örnek” (“Ürnək”) printing house in Kazan.

This article provides information about the works of literary journalism published by Gabdulla Tukay during the period characterized as the Kazan period of his literary journalism or the mature stage of his publicistic creativity (1907–1913).